Job Title: Client/Design Project Manager (Project Manager IV)
Duration: 12 months- potential extension
Location: New Albany, OH (fully onsite)
Core Responsibilities & Scope of Work:
1. Owner Representation & Stakeholder Management
- Single Point of Contact: Serve as the dedicated on-site representative for the Owner, safeguarding corporate interests across all site-level operations and decisions.
- Requirements & Deliverables: Communicate, monitor, and enforce accountability regarding the Owner's functional requirements and project deliverables.
- Documentation & Governance: Maintain comprehensive, real-time documentation of key decisions, formal approvals, field progress, and risk logs within designated tracking systems to guarantee complete transparency and auditability.
- Meeting Governance: Participate in all principal Design and Construction Administration (CA) progress meetings; align continuously with the Client DPL on strategic expectations.
- Status Reporting: Generate and submit formal weekly project status reports to the Owner Project Lead utilizing prescribed reporting frameworks.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Manage expectations through clear, timely, and executive communication. Coordinate directly with operational end-users to integrate technical requirements in compliance with established Owner Standards.
2. Commercial & Contract Management
- Contractual Compliance: Ensure all execution complies strictly with contractual terms, maintaining rigorous accountability across the design team.
- Consultant Coordination: Act as the primary field contact for third-party consultants (e.g., TEOR PM), ensuring synchronization across schedules, deliverables, and field activities.
- Change Control: Rigorously evaluate design modifications, omissions, scope variations, and potential change orders, presenting formal recommendations to the Client DPL for final determination.
- Audit Records: Ensure the Engineer of Record (EOR) maintains precise, timely records of all design instructions, field changes, and administrative determinations.
3. Schedule & Execution Oversight
- Schedule Optimization: Proactively track the master design schedule and main construction timeline to detect risks, optimize path sequences, and oversee direct vendor dependencies.
- Milestone Tracking: Monitor critical path milestones, reporting schedule variances, impact analyses, and proposed mitigation plans to the Client DPL.
- Issue Resolution: Facilitate immediate resolution of design-related field challenges by orchestrating cross-functional resources and escalating unresolvable risks appropriately.
4. Quality Assurance & Quality Control (QA/QC)
- Quality Monitoring: Collaborate with the Owner QA/QC Lead to evaluate active construction against technical specifications, design intent, and acceptance standards.
- Reporting Integrity: Validate the detail, accuracy, and risk mitigation strategies in weekly EOR discipline submissions.
- Design Conformance: Hold design partners accountable for maintaining complete alignment with authorized construction documents throughout execution.
- Close-Out Management: Oversee close-out activities with direct-appointed vendors, ensuring full regulatory compliance and statutory certification acquisition.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead post-completion debriefs to document lessons learned and operational enhancements.
5. Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Compliance
- Safety Leadership: Promote a proactive safety culture on-site across all contractors and stakeholders. Participate in site safety meetings and safety performance audits.
- Sustainability Governance: Engage with the Owner Sustainability Lead to confirm adherence to environmental targets, escalating critical non-conformance risks to the Client DPL.
6. Technical & Design Management
- Information Flow: Oversee submittal flows and RFIs between design entities and general contractors to secure timely, fully coordinated documentation.
- Consultant Oversight: Track design partner KPIs regarding review turnarounds, design review milestones, and ad-hoc problem resolution.
- Change Control Protocols: Enforce standardized change protocols during the CA phase, requiring comprehensive cost, time, and quality impact assessments prior to authorization.